Gallery Kaku - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gallery Kaku. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Jiro Imai "Jirox Dolls and Music"
Jiro Imai (aka Jirox) makes sculptures out of useless objects and garbage. Using a cassette player and lighting system of bulbs, he also does music performances that are naive, yet violent, lyrical and (...)
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Kazuki Mizuguchi Exhibition
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”The Room of Kazuya Yamaguchi" Exhibition
Artist Kazuya Yamaguchi find beauty in ordinary lives and transfers that beauty on to his canvases. He seeks the point from which beauty emerges and is interested in the invisible elements that make communications (...)
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Satoko Kobayashi "Light"
Kobayashi stayed in Chiangmai, Thailand, from September 2005 to August 2006. This exhibition features work from an exhibition titled "Fragments/Chiangmai" which she presented in Chiangmai and Bangkok at (...)
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Hiroko Nemoto "Room"
Nemoto uses motifs that are full of imagination, memory and a sense of longing, putting emphasis on strong tones in the groundwork. By doing so, she achieves a bright, colourful layering of paint which (...)
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Tetsu Ishii "Industrial Park"
When the artist first visited the industrial belt, he was struck by the sounds, lights and smells emitted by these massive structures and the overwhelming presence they bear on their surroundings; this (...)
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Kenshi Yamakura "Flower"
Since his relief paintings in the 1980s, Yamakura has always painted in a style where the spacial focus is brought to the forefront of the canvas so as to make it seem like you are looking through a window, (...)
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Mineo Sakata Exhibition
The artist questions what meaning art has in relation to society and the notions of truth, justice and uncertainty that arise out of it. Captivated by the cycle of life and death of plants and animals, (...)
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Yuko Kimura Exhibition
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Kazuya Yamaguchi Exhibition
[Image: "Self-Portrait" 1982-1996, 45.4x61.3cm]
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Yu Nagasawa "Ambiguous Sight Lines"
For this exhibition, the artist has moved away from the performance art that she has made until now to make more concrete depictions of people. Depicting both men and women, the artist does not make use (...)
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Takefumi Yamagishi "Tree Trace"
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Seigo Aoki "The Meaning of Seeing"
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Naoyo Fukuda Exhibition
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Kazuya Yamamoto Exhibition
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Kazuki Mizuguchi Exhibition
[ "Lotus 05" 60x60cm Panel, Cotton, Mineral Pigments, 2005-6 ]
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Yuko Someya "Making Rainbows for Birds"
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Shigeatsu Fujiwara "Masks"
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Yuko Nakano "Illegal Dumping"
For several years the artist has been photographing urban landscapes. Landscapes that she feels throw themselves down unconditionally in front of us; ceaslessly growing, changing, overlapping each other, (...)
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Yuko Kanamori Exhibition
*Related Event Performance "Violet" Saturday 20th May, 14:00, 16:00, 18:00 (Each lasting 20 minutes) Art by Yuko Kanamori; Dance by Emi Naya. Audience limited to 10 people each time. ¥1000. Booking (...)
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Chisei Shimomura "Mirage"
When Shimomura sees the dividing line between differing spaces, or when he feels different types of air, he feels a strange sense of reality. For example, when faced with reflections in window panes of (...)
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Yasuharu Monai Exhibition
Monai aims to make works which connect with nature. He takes paper, which is easy to fold, cuts and pastes and freely makes whatever form he likes out of it, before colouring it in various ways. For this (...)
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Ritsuko Yamashita Exhibition
Illustrations of urban landscapes with cone-shaped skinheads.
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Yusuke Matsumoto Exhitbition
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Naoto Kumagai Exhibition
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Springboard 2006
Springboard is a group exhibition of work by promising artists, that Gallery Kaku has selected from past exhibitions held at their rental space. Works include: copper etchings of birds and mythical (...)
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Miyuki Sakurai Exhibition
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Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa "Others"
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Hirofumi Toyama Exhibition
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Tamihito Yoshikawa Exhibition
An exhibition made of four large-scale paintings and smaller works of oil painting.
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Yoichi Miyajima
In his paintings, Miyajima renders elaborate subjects into simple lines and bold brushstrokes. His paintings appear monochrome, but upon closer look, one can see dark indigo in the black, and a different (...)
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Keiko Hatanaka "Moisture"
A series of C-print photographs taken in greenhouses.
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Misa Yoshizawa
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Toshio Kojima
Sculptures by Toshio Kojima, inspired by his childhood memories of train sounds at night and their trail of lights.
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Hitoshi Nakamori Exhibition
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Naoyo Fukuda
An installation of works out of paper, inspired by a palindrome about yearning to return home.
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Sanae Tamano
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Yoko Hayakawa
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Mineo Sakata "Flower"
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Kazuna Taguchi "Stars"
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Nariatsu Fujiwara "Reality of the Gaze - Returning Exhibition Tatebe Jinja to Gallery Kaku"
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Junko Ikawa
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Noriko Kitamura Solo Exhibition
Kitamura has been working with the motif of "houses" in the past few years. The artist, who is also a colorist, has been exhibiting an increase of brightness in her works, and as a result, her paintings (...)
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Mio Kaneda Solo Exhibition
Oil paintings on paper and canvas, as well as drawings in sketch books.
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Naoko Uemura Exhibition
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Yuko Kanamori Exhibition
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Kazuya Yamamoto
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Mitsuhiro Yamagiwa
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Flat Island
All three featured artists have in common the usage of two-dimensional media. But their objective lies not in the fundamental pursuit of media form per se or its historicity, but in grasping the immediate (...)
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Yoichi Miyajima
It is only in the past year where the artist has been leaving strong brushstroke marks in his work. However, Miyajima still holds fast to his style of not letting his subjects take on any meaning. The (...)
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Yukari Inada "every page has its reverse."





